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    Grand Teton: Children Of The Rockies
    Grand Teton: Children Of The Rockies
    Grand Teton: Children Of The Rockies
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    Grand Teton: Children Of The Rockies

    By George Robinson

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    Grand Teton National Park is one of the most spectacular landscapes and settings on the North American continent. Its history and story are beautifully revealed in George Robinson's brilliant essays. Geology, botany, and biology are blended in an intensely personal narrative that celebrates this most amazing of American National Parks.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPark Partners, Inc
    Release dateMay 6, 2011
    ISBN9781580711074
    Grand Teton: Children Of The Rockies
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    George Robinson

    George Robinson is the author of the critically acclaimed Essential Judaism, as well as Essential Torah: A Complete Guide to the Five Books of Moses (2006). The recipient of a Simon Rockower Award for excellence in Jewish journalism from the American Jewish Press Association, Robinson is a senior writer for The Jewish Week, the largest Jewish newspaper in North America. He is a contributor to the new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica and has written frequently for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, and Hadassah Magazine.

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      Grand Teton - George Robinson

      GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK

      The Tetons: Children Of The Rockies

      By

      George B. Robinson

      *****

      SIERRA PRESS

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Sierra Press

      *****

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      *****

      DEDICATION

      This book is for my publisher Jeff Nicholas and my editor Nicky Leach. I will always think of them as more than publishing professionals. They are good friends, who share my passion for words and writing, and an irrepressible sense of wonder about the natural world. They have had unqualified faith in my ability and I have learned much from them. Their counsel has made my writing better.

      G.B.R.

      *****

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      The author gratefully acknowledges the careful review and fact checking by Grand Teton National Park Chief of Interpretation Carolyn Richard, and Grand Teton Natural History Association Executive Secretary Jan Lynch and their respective staffs. Special thanks go to Jan Lynch who was a strong proponent of this publication. Having seen the author’s book on Yellowstone in this series, she asked, Why don’t we have one?

      —G.B.R.

      *****

      CONTENTS

      THE SETTING

      Regional Overview

      THE GEOLOGIC STORY

      THE HUMAN STORY

      Mountain Men

      AFOOT IN THE TETONS

      Exploring the Park

      SEASONS IN THE WILD

      The Snake River

      The Role of Fire

      THE WILD SIDE

      Bears

      PLANT COMMUNITIES

      ANIMALS: LARGE AND SMALL

      THE SUM OF THE PARTS

      Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

      RESOURCES and INFORMATION

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      *****

      Grand Teton and beaver pond at dawn

      THE SETTING

      No matter how tightly the body may be chained to the wheel of daily duties,

      The spirit is free . . .

      To bear itself away from noise and vexation

      Into the secret places of the mountains.

      —At the North of Bearcamp Water

      Frank Bolles

      I first saw the Teton Range nearly 60 years ago. I was with my father (who was stationed in the National Park Service Midwest Regional Office in Omaha) on an annual inspection tour of parks in the Central and Northern Rockies in the early 1950s. We were driving west over Togwotee Pass in the Wind River Range when Dad said, There they are, son!

      The serrated peaks of the Tetons dominated the distant view. I had seen them recently in the movie Shane, but only as a scenic backdrop to the action on screen. These mountains were real, not celluloid images, and their mirrored reflection in Jackson Lake, as we approached Moran Junction, made them appear even more impressive, seeming to rise higher out of the valley floor as I watched.

      I had seen and lived in mountains before but their contours had been less severe. These peaks looked more like what I imagined the Swiss Alps to be. That early impression of Jackson Hole, buttressed on the west by the massive Tetons, remains vivid in my memory. It augured a time—long in the future—when I would live and work in nearby Yellowstone National Park and often revisit the scene. I know of no other place that rivals the pure beauty of Jackson Hole and the incredible peaks abruptly rising above it.

      Mountain men referred to enclosed mountain valleys, such as the one surrounding Jackson Lake, as holes. Jackson Hole is a flat, upland valley consisting of porous, cobbled soils covered with sagebrush and surrounded by mountains and highlands. One of the largest such valleys in the Rocky Mountains, Jackson Hole was named for David E. Jackson, a trapper who loved the Snake River country and, between 1824 and 1830, trapped along the Continental Divide. As a partner with Jedediah Smith and William Sublette, he kept their company financially stable through his competent trapping abilities and adept leadership.

      Grand Teton National Park is small, yet it contains all of the classic elements associated with national parks of the West: mountains, abundant and diverse wildlife, pristine streams, rivers and glacial lakes, and different plant communities associated with changing elevations and microclimates. The spectacular vertical rise of the

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